Coast to Coast – Sept/Oct 2012

The whole reason for getting into this cycling lark was to ride the Coast to Coast ( C2C ) sometime in the near future.  At roughly 130miles, most people take 2 or more days to do it but Rick’s challenge was for us to do it in one day – nutter!

There are a number of routes to follow but we made up our own.  With a starting point of Whitehaven, we would travel across the country to finish somewhere around Tynemouth.

This was the proposed route

 

We had planned to be dropped off early in the morning in Whitehaven and then meet up with our wives in Tynemouth and have a few beers and a night in a hotel to recover before driving back the following day.  A night away from the kids – great!!

Unfortunately we never got around to settling on a weekend when we could do it and as the weeks went by and the daylight shrank it became obvious that it wasn’t going to happen.

Rick ended up with a chest infection which knocked us back as well.

So, even though I was riding to work in the dark, Rick was a bit nervous of setting off in the dark and, more than likely, finishing in the dark too.  The weather played a massive part and the weeks up to the the date we had potentially decided upon was horendous.  Windy, torrential rain, floods.

So it was cancelled for another day, maybe…….

This is where we then upped the anti and decided to attempt Lands End to John O Groats ( LeJog ).

Are we mad fools…………mid life crisis?